Chapter 39 Heidan Earns Money
Back at the Youth Farm, the adults and the child start cooking.
However, Song Wei had almost finished his rations, but he still had some sweet potatoes.
They simply cooked some sweet potatoes, and the two of them went up the mountain eating them.
On the other side, after listening to Song Wei's advice, Gao Le happily went to find his good brother.
Seeing him coming, Zhao Su was so jealous that he became paralyzed.
"Don't tell me you finished your work early again!"
The sour tone and look made Gao Le feel refreshed.
"Yes, you are envious, aren't you jealous?"
Zhao Su nodded vigorously.
This time, Zhao Su was working with an uncle. Zhao Su had a bitter expression, while the uncle's expression was more like his father had died.
"Zhao Zhiqing, hurry up!"
He was a grown man and was so anxious that he stamped his feet.
Zhao Su wanted to cry to death.
“It’s almost there.”
Meeting the old man's dead fish eyes, Gao Le touched his nose guiltily.
Before he met Sister Song, the uncles and aunts all looked at him in the same way.
Seeing that his brother was really pitiful, Gao Le came over and whispered the method that Song Wei had taught him.
Zhao Su's eyes suddenly lit up, and in his excitement he almost strangled the seedlings in his hand to death.
"That's a good idea. I'll go find someone now."
"Zhao Zhiqing, what are you doing?"
As soon as Zhao Su stood up, the uncle stared at him with a pair of angry eyes.
It would be fine if you couldn't do your job well, but now you want to run away?
Zhao Su felt guilty: "I, I'll just stand up and take my time."
He was so desperate that he could not even cry, and finally could only trouble his good brother to find someone.
"Brother, you must find someone to save me from this suffering."
Gao Le chuckled and said, "Okay, okay."
It’s actually quite easy to find such a child, but you also have to find one with good character.
Although Gao Le had only been in the Ping'an Brigade for a short time, he had listened to a lot of gossip among the aunties while he was slacking off at work.
I don't say I know all the people in this team, but I do know some of the family situations of some of them.
So after looking around for a while, he successfully found a family whose financial situation was relatively poor but whose people were good.
The family was a widow whose husband had died and lived with her three children. The three children were all under the age of 13, one was 11, and the other was only eight years old.
The two half-grown children would come to help their mother with the work every day, but at the end of the day the three of them could only earn ten work points at most.
After all, two children cannot be counted as work points, so the widow can only get a full ten work points a day at most.
Gao Le found the right opportunity and moved forward.
"Aunt, I want to discuss something with you..."
Gao Le had calculated everything. Neither he nor Zhao Su were greedy. As long as they achieved three work points every day, it would be enough.
I don't want to do anything extra.
So he paid Zhao Su ten cents a day and only helped him complete three work points and then left.
After Zhao Su left, the one who was in a team with Zhao Su could go to the team leader to discuss forming a team with others to work in the territory, so that neither side would be delayed.
When the widow heard about this good thing, she agreed without thinking.
After all, she could only take ten centimeters at most a day, and with two children helping her, she finished the work quite early.
Now you can let a child go out to earn money. That kind of work is only one cent a day, so it will be one dollar in ten days!
Not long after, Gao Le took an eleven-year-old boy to find his brother.
The uncle who was working with Zhao Su looked at them with confusion.
Gao Le happily ran over to explain to the uncle.
When the uncle heard that Zhao Su would leave after completing three work points, and he could team up with others, he immediately agreed without caring how these two guys found people to help.
He really didn't want to work with Zhao Su at all, as it made his heart sick.
The young boy is worthy of being the one who often helps his mother with work. Children of poor families have to grow up early. Although he is a boy, he is careful and quick in doing things, and his movements are much more agile than Zhao Su.
Compared to him, Zhao Su and Gao Le are just trash.
But Zhao Su was not sad but happy. He kept asking the young boy if he was tired or thirsty. He gave him his sweetened water to drink and gave him a big steamed bun to eat.
The young boy worked harder.
With Song Wei's guidance, Zhao Su and Gao Le have found the correct way to live a carefree life, but this method is only available to rich people.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
On the other hand, Heidan screened through his mind and found two partners to make money with.
A little girl, whose family favors boys over girls, is an unlucky child like Heidan. She doesn't have enough to eat and often has to help with heavy work at home.
Perhaps both of them were bullied in the village, so Heidan had a good relationship with her.
There was also a little boy who lived with only one elderly person at home. He was too young to go to the fields to earn work points, and the only parent in the family was too old, so the work points he earned were not enough to feed the grandfather and grandson in a year. Their life was very hard.
After hearing the good news brought by Heidan that they could earn ten cents for a bundle of firewood, the two children were immediately excited and looked at Heidan with burning eyes.
Heidan warned them.
"You can't tell anyone about this, otherwise Chunya, your money will be taken away by your family, and our jobs will be taken away as well."
The three children looked like they were plotting something important, their expressions were extremely serious.
Song Wei wanted to laugh when watching from the side.
After the two children repeatedly assured them not to leak the news, Heidan started to discuss how to hide the money.
The little boy was not a big deal. It was okay to take the money back and give it to his grandfather.
The girl definitely wasn't allowed to keep any money on her. If she was discovered, she would definitely be beaten and asked to hand over the money every day, which would be equivalent to working for nothing.
Chun Ya looked at Heidan and said, "I'll leave the money with you and you can give it to me when I need it, okay?"
Chun Ya glanced at Song Wei cautiously, and it was obvious that she had also heard about what happened this morning.
It’s great that Heidan now lives with Song Zhiqing and doesn’t have to go back to the Lin family anymore.
Chun Ya had envy in her eyes and felt sad when she thought of her family.
However, she was better than Heidan in that her family just ignored her and asked her to do some work, but they did not treat Heidan like an enemy like the Lin family and beat her with sticks at every turn.
"Can."
After the three children had discussed it, they each carried a backpack and went up the mountain. Although they were young, they were very skilled at collecting firewood.
Heidan walked to Song Wei and carefully grasped the corner of her clothes with his skinny little hands.
"Sister Song, let's go."
Song Wei rubbed his head, then grabbed his hand and led him to the place where they picked walnuts yesterday.
The other two children didn’t dare to waste time and didn’t follow them because they knew they were going into the mountains.
"Sister Song, shall we bring back all the walnuts today?"
"Well, just pick up firewood."
She didn't stop the little guy from earning money on his own.
Because a lot of information about that era is hard to find, a lot of the content is compiled by myself. For prices that can be found, I wrote according to the prices of that time. For things that cannot be found, I can only make a rough estimate myself. Just treat it as a text about a parallel world.
(End of this chapter)